Most finance teams buy FP&A software the same way. They line up demos, score features, pick a winner, and sign. Six months later the tool works fine and the project still stalled. The platform is almost never why these projects fail. What decides the outcome is everything around the choice, and it is the part most buyers skip. There is an eight-point checklist at the end. First, why the platform is rarely the problem. What you are really buying when you buy FP&A software You
